Por Vishal Wilde. Artículo original: Rethinking Systems for Structuring Time, 24 de Mayo, 2025. Traducido por Felix Hallowkollekt. Repensando los sistemas para estructurar y usar el tiempo El tiempo es fundamental para la existencia y la experiencia humana. Los marcos sociales para estructurar y entender el tiempo y la experiencia temporal han, sin embargo, permanecido...| Center for a Stateless Society
I’m going to describe a Type Of Guy starting a business, and you’re going to guess the business: The founder is very young, often under 25. He might work alone or with a founding team, but wh…| Aceso Under Glass
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We are Gaia's yeast infection. Hear me out. The Gaia hypothesis is actually that living organisms interact with inorganic surroundings to create a complex synergistic system. The pop [...]| ideatrash
To reduce the manifold harms of college football, fiery calls for abolition pointed at university decision makers and public health officials won’t get the job done.| Public Books
The series explores how historical sociological thinkers illuminate contemporary student struggles in finding their vocations amid societal challenges. This post highlights themes of anomie, technological disruption, and moral ambiguity affecting students' mental health and identity. Educators are urged to model adaptive behaviors and foster discussions around these challenges to support student well-being.| vocation matters
Turning 90 this month, Social Security remains one of the most popular federal social programs, as a large majority of Americans oppose cuts to its benefits, which are allocated to... READ MORE The post Social Security at 90: Looking Back, Looking Forward by Daniel Béland appeared first on University Press of Kansas.| University Press of Kansas
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Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.| The MIT Press Reader
What is the omnivore’s deception? “The omnivore’s deception,” as I call it, is the idea that we can go on raising and killing other animals for food without harming animals,... READ MORE| NYU Press
On June 14, an estimated five million people joined the “No Kings” protests to object to President Donald Trump’s anti-democratic maneuvers. But an appeal to democracy doesn’t resonate with die-hard... READ MORE The post Do Christian Nationalists Want King Trump? by Rebecca Barrett-Fox appeared first on University Press of Kansas.| University Press of Kansas
Women are hot to seduce men. This is both plainly true and paradoxically contradicted everywhere men look at women. So what is actually going on?| PUTANUMONIT
Solomon Park, MJLST Staffer I. Tomorrow’s Originalism: After Original Public Meaning Originalism & the Implementation Problem When interpreting the Constitution, the threshold question is what...| LawSci Forum
The University of Tulsa is pleased to announce that Aaron Schoenfeldt has been selected as the 2025-26 Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow at the Helmerich Center for American Research on the grounds of Tulsa’s renowned Gilcrease Museum. Schoenfeldt holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago and will receive his doctorate […]| The University of Tulsa
From Boston Public Library via Wikimedia Commons.Daniel Quinn returned to the theme that “food makes babies” so often in his writings that it would seem he was continually dissatisfied either with the clarity of his case, or with objections people had, or both. I get it. I often return over and over to the same thorny themes, each time thinking I’ll finally nail it. The exercise is as much for improving internal clarity as anything.| Do the Math
Complex systems theory is a way of thinking about systems with many interacting parts and functions. It draws on physics and the science of modeling dynamic systems. It’s a trans-disciplinary, quantitative science of everything. It often and increasingly gets applied to social systems, often through the methods of agent-based modeling (ABM). ABM has a long […]| Digifesto
The International Association of Vegan Sociologists is welcoming submissions for individual presentations or panels for their 2025 annual online meeting “Senses & Emotions”, Oct 4-5…| PHAIR Society
It’s not always easy to recognize a cyberbully, or initially realize you’re being targeted. Here, some practices to help you to grow and protect your professional networks in ways that align with your values and vision.| The Scholarly Kitchen
While Open Science frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world.| The Scholarly Kitchen
These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The University of Georgia is pleased to announce Feminisms, Gender, and Space, a new critical geography series that will publish cutting-edge and engaged social science on the topics of intersectio…| ugapress.wordpress.com
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. In our new paper “The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Ca…| Home: Free Sociology!
Content warning: Links to and discussion of edgy people with perverse opinions on hot-button topics too diverse to mention but which surely include gender, eugenics, speech and religion Notes on eccentrics, mavericks, outsider geniuses and fools. What my family called stroppy people. Lacking an identifiable label so you show up in diversity metrics? Not sure whether you are rebelling against society or conforming to a subgroup? How do you get by as a mad outsider? Will you be right twice a da...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Peter Brown‘s fascinating Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD chronicles the changing conceptions of wealth and treasure in late antiquity and the first centuries of Christianity. For our 2020 series in the rise of money (we also spoke to Thomas … Continue reading "146* Peter Brown on wealth, charity and managerial bishops in early Christianity (JP)"| Recall This Book
If the media have an incentive to maintain political division, and engagement spikes when the sheer number of people in opposition is larger, then it would be in the interest of media companies to subtly (or overtly) shape narratives that keep the minority in power, ensuring a larger pool of outraged consumers.| The Smalley Creative Blog
What a difference four years makes. Back in February 2021, still struggling to understand what had just happened at the Capitol, John and Elizabeth spoke with Brandeis historian Greg Childs. H…| Recall This Book
Welcome to the final episode of What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years.David Cunningham, chair of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis, is author of Klansville, U.S.A. and There’s something happening Here: The … Continue reading "138c. What Just Happened? David Cunningham (Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie)"| Recall This Book
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. In this episode, Vincent Brown (History professor at Harvard) last spoke with us about his own work on Caribbean slave revolts; his many other well … Continue reading "138b. What Just Happened? Vincent Brown (Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock)"| Recall This Book
From tribal hunts to Stonehenge and into the modern day, the peer instinct helps humans coordinate their efforts and learning.| Big Think
Intersectionality, like many academic sociological terms, is often misunderstood and misrepresented in popular discourse. But I found a simple way to approach it by thinking about it with my math b…| Never Down, Always Up
3 years after the Squid Game, Netflix has a new Korean dystopian game-based TV show. It’s called “The 8 Show”. The directing is awful. The cinematography is laughably bad. The plot has more holes t…| Outlook Zen
How we learned to sort true from false in medicine.| Nautilus
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
Today we offer a double-post, with a proposal and a response concerning how we frame our efforts toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as a community.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of race, ethnicity, and education, and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores “ethnic expectations” for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often … Continue reading "122 The Culture Trap, with sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)"| Recall This Book
A social fact is an idea originating with the sociologist Émile Durkheim—it’s something that has a genesis in the institutions or culture of a society which affects the behavior or attitudes or any one member of that society. Mimetic systems and the scapegoat mechanism are examples of Social facts. The University of Colorado gives the […] The post Social Fact appeared first on Mimetic Theory.| Mimetic Theory
Becoming collapse-aware can make you feel like you're going insane. You'd be crazy if it didn't.| Collapse Musings
Kids risk being bullied or isolated if they don’t spend money on skins or equipment. Researchers have mapped how young people get manipulated into spending money while gaming.| partner.sciencenorway.no
I thank Simon Susen for the opportunity for further engagement on his important contribution. If I can humbly claim to have at least partially inspired him to ask the immensely generative questions he…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
We're not doomed because of climate change, resource depletion, or biodiversity loss. We're doomed because human nature made those things inevitable.| Collapse Musings
Family life looks very different across the country, depending when women first give birth.| www.nytimes.com
AI-generated stranger; I’m not so young/attractive| Do the Math
Sometimes air travel sucks. Delayed flights. Crowded airports. Stressed and testy airline employees. And planes always seem to be packed to the gills. Maybe it’s not surprising that air rage incidents are up, with the International Air Transport Association reporting that “unruly passenger incidents were up 47% in 2022, overtaking 2021’s record high of one […]| John M Jennings
the unlikely child born of the home computer wars| Oldskooler Ramblings
Alexandrea Ravenelle’s latest book explores how COVID-19 affected the most vulnerable wage-earners.| Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine
